"There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain."
"The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years."
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Source: Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial
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